We dive right into how DJ D Sharp turned his hustle into a legacy — from a kid locked on turntables to the Warriors’ DJ and a producer building a signature sound and a production company. I chat with D Sharp about what it means to make “hip hop that slaps” (think heavy low-end, punchy drums and that Bay Area bounce mixed with soulful Hip‑Hop textures from folks like J Dilla), and how he protects his brand by marrying family values and realness with his music. We unpack the difference between a viral moment and sustained craft — one clip can blow up overnight, but holding a four‑hour set, guiding people through peaks and valleys, and building fans one at a time is how you make a career. D Sharp also shares straight‑up advice for young creators: start now, find a mentor, practice obsessively, use the tech and resources at your fingertips, and keep your faith and priorities in check. Along the way we laugh, trade Pisces jokes, celebrate Oakland pride, and talk about how music, sports, and community can lift families across generations. If you want a down‑to‑earth blueprint on turning passion into a platform — with beats, heart, and a little hustle wisdom — we got you.

Sam,.

What's up?

What's up, y'?

All?

Welcome to turning your hustle into a legacy with Dr. Stanz.

I am very blessed and fortunate today.

I got my guy, DJ D Sharp, here.

What's up, brother?

What's up, Dimples?

How you doing?

So glad he was able to make it, y'.

All.

We were actually just talking.

You know how I do my show.

I'm just straight, authentic.

We like.

We ain't no cameras here, right?

It's all good.

We was just kind of talking first, actually.

I gotta tell the people who you are.

Duh.

He's the DJ for the Warriors.

He's the top.

He's a producer.

He's.

I mean, he do a lot.

Family man.

Married, two kids, father.

You went to Horseman in Skyline?

I went to Horseman.

You went to Horseman?

I did.

Well, I mean, I was just gonna say.

How old are you?

I'm 43.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

You older than me?

Yeah, I'm older than you.

Yeah.

Way or just a couple?

Yeah, just, you know, whatever.

But I be so tired of people.

That do not want to tell they age.

I don't.

I mean, you know what it is?

You look good.

You know what it is in this situation?

It's like.

You know what it is?

It's like, you know, black don't crack it.

Don't.

Black don't crack it.

Does not.

You don't look like.

I ran across my partner.

He told me he.

His age.

I was like, bruh.

No, like, you know what I'm saying?

He was, like 10 years older than me and just, you know, looked like he was 37, so.

Well, you look that age, too.

How about that?

Thank you.

But.

But no.

Horseman.

Yeah.

That's where it all started for me.

Really?

I heard or seen that you started DJing at 15 years old.

So this is over there.

I was.

I was.

I started.

That's where I got my love for it.

So, like, I was like 11, 12.

But I used 15 as my profession because that's when I first got paid for.

Okay.

You know, like that.

And I was, like, starting to look at it as a business in a profession.

Okay, so basically, you living out your dream.

Is this something you always wanted to do?

For sure.

Wow.

You've maximized it.

I seen you with Jay Z, you.

Know, with your people.

You moving.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, it is.

DJing has put me in some great spaces, met some great people, and, you know.

Yeah, I'm living my dream.

I think that's dope.

Because a lot of people can't say they're living in their dream, right?

I didn't know that this was my dream.

Did you know that you always wanted to be a dj?

You know what I mean?

I kind of did.

Really?

Yeah, like, I kind of did.

I think the moment.

The moment, like, it's like when you do something so much and like, my mother couldn't pull me away from the turntables or, like, I used to get mad.

I used to be like, what, you want me to do some dishes?

Take out the trash?

You want me to what?

Like, I'm in the middle of learning something right now or doing something.

So it was always me just, you know, doing it.

Like, I was always practicing.

That's dope.

Always practicing.

I tell people, like, you know, like it was cats working on they jump shot.

I was working on my scratching and my mixing, you know, like, I was.

I think that's dope.

That was me in my gym, you know, getting my reps in and.

Yeah, getting better.

What about your sons?

Like, do.

I know they just admire you working for the warriors, and they probably go to the games and be there.

What do they think about it?

Like, do they want to follow in your footsteps with dj?

No.

Huh?

My sons are too cool for school.

Like, they super cool, but I'm super proud of them.

They playing hoop in the AAU circuit and they play for their schools.

Um, my.

They're both models, so.

They model.

Really?

Um.

And, you know, they, they, they.

Yeah.

It's funny, like, my youngest, I mean, my oldest, he came, he was three or four years old.

I got footage of it, and he.

He DJed a set at the Warrior game.

No, no.

At four years old?

Nuh.

Yeah, he did.

He did.

And I was so nervous and he.

And he did his thing.

We kind of practiced it and all that stuff.

But ever since then, he ain't really looked back.

Like, when he was like, you know, between two and like four or five, he was super into it.

But then he got to basketball, and he just been doing basketball and, you know, and he's a scholar, too.

Let me big him up.

Serious.

You know, he principals list, you know what I'm saying?

So I'm real proud of my boys.

What's his major?

Well, they ain't got that far yet.

Neither has my daughter.

They just there.

They just there, ain't declare.

He's in the seventh grade.

Oh, okay.

You see, I was trying to be in your business.

I'm slick.

He in the seventh grade, so he's Young.

Not in college.

And then my old.

My.

My youngest one is in the fifth grade.

Oh, so they young, young.

Yeah, they young, young.

Yeah.

Okay, so I'm trying to be in his business.

So who is DJ D Sharp?

I mean, people who are you?

DJ D Sharp is a husband, a father, a dj, a producer.

Yeah.

You know, a jack of all trades.

I try to do everything, but, yeah, I mean, I just a lover of music, you know, and, you know, at the end of the day, for me, it's just always wanting to see people succeed and win.

Everybody in my circle, everybody around me, I love that.

And, you know, that's.

That's, you know, you.

I know that you do producing.

You're a producer.

And we were just kind of talking about that.

Back to the script we was talking about before the cameras came on is about how, you know, one you locked in and how yours, you know, how you understand the difference of slap and hip hop.

Yes, but you got hip hop that slap.

You know what I mean?

Let's get back to that.

Yeah, no, what I was trying to say was.

Yeah, so for me, like, the music that I make, like, I grew up, obviously, on short 40 and all of that and the Bay Area sound and the producers that I've admired all make slap.

From Ant Banks to Studio Tone, it goes on, you know what I'm saying?

I'm listening to the Mechanics on the way here.

Okay, so it's like we come from slap.

We do.

But I also come up, like, I'm a big fan of J Dilla.

Rest in peace, DJ Premier.

You know, a lot of producers from kind of like the East Coast Q Tip, Tribe Called Quest, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like, those are guys that I look up to in terms of, like, production, Knife wonder, those kind of guys.

So I combined where we was talking about slap, and then, like, you know, I make hip hop, so I make hip hop that slaps.

I like that.

I like that.

And I think we was also talking about, like, even me, how I was just.

Let's just keep it 100.

How I was saying me being new to the industry and now I'm tired of the rappers and the gangsters and all this hood stuff, you know, and me wanting to branch off and be different.

That's why I got my DJ here.

Hopefully he can get me a warrior or some type of, you know, a basketball player here.

I don't wanna just be stuck to rapping and East Stokeling.

I wanna branch off, you know, And I think, is that the same with you?

Like, even you being a producer, you don't wanna just stick to slap or hip hop.

How are you gonna, like, manage that?

And, you know, in like protecting one, your name, your brand, and not really be just a hood producer.

Yeah, no, that's.

I mean, all that stuff you just said is important.

Protecting the brand, protecting the name, building the sound, you know, like, you know, I got, I got records with Guapile.

I got, I got records, like, you know, I got records, like R B records too, you know, But I think, you know, for me, it's important to build a sound.

And also it's important to attach your sound to a brand that, you know, that people can look up to and people can say, oh, okay, that's what he doing, or whatever.

But, yeah, I, I'm real.

I'm real.

Like, I'm really particular about my brand.

Like, I'm just like, you know, you can look at the Instagram and see it.

I post my family.

I post, like, it, you know, very classy.

Yeah, I don't just post games, but I post, you know, like, my mom just had a birthday shout out.

My mom shout out mom.

I posted that.

Like, you know, I post, you know, reality, reality.

My son's playing hoop.

Like, you know, so it's just like, you know, I want my brand.

I want my music to reflect the brand.

You know what I'm saying?

So it's like, yeah, I, I think about that.

Would you do, like, country singers and pop rock?

That's the thing.

Like, I would do, I would do all that.

Like, you know, I mean, he's a rapper.

I just did a record with Frack.

I was listening to that also on the way here, and I'm just, you know, he's like a.

Well, he's, he's a dope mc, but he, he's more so like, comedic, you know what I'm saying?

But he, he's a lyricist.

Like, he can rap.

So we just did a record and I'm open to your question.

I'm open to everything, to everything, you know, but also bringing my brand, my sound to, to it, you know, nothing wrong with that.

You know, that's the same with me.

Like, of course I'm in east, the Bay Area, you know what I mean?

West coast.

But I wanna expand everywhere.

It's funny you kind of said that when it comes to brand and just kind of opening my horizons, like, I've had a lot of people from my culture, my genre.

I've done it.

So now I need to hit other ethnic backgrounds.

I need to talk to other people and maybe not all celebrities.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

No, for real.

Everyday people.

Everyday.

Because it's things that everybody is going through that I think the world needs to see.

And like, for instance, I got a young lady coming on.

Shout out to Dr. Lee.

Shout out to Erica.

You know, one.

Her husband was dying of kidney cancer.

Oh, no.

You know what I'm saying?

For 15 years, she stood by him.

Loyal.

You know what I mean?

That's a story.

That's a story.

And that's a story that people need to hear because it's a lot of people who go through that kind of stuff.

And that's.

So I don't want to keep fabricating my show as it's just celebrities.

So I'm going to be bringing more people.

That's good.

So I think it's dope that, you know, you are my first dj.

Welcome to Turning Hustle.

Oh, yeah.

You gotta have more.

I like mine.

I think you said something too, I want to piggyback on.

Really?

Yeah.

East Oakland, born and raised.

Same.

I know it, you know, like, it's, you know, so like, I also carry that.

You know what I'm saying?

But coming from Oakland and it's like I talk to Rich and like, you know, all the OGs, and just like watching my OGs, and you see it like as we travel, when we travel, you know this.

Cause it's like wherever we go, people just gravitate towards us immediately, you know what I'm saying?

Because they know it's something about us, you know, so.

And I like to.

I'm real prideful about that, for one, but I'm just prideful about being from East Oakland.

And I want people to know that too.

You know, I'm born and raised, you know what I'm saying?

From Brookfield to School street to, you know, like, I didn't, you know, like, I done been all over East Oakland, you know, dubs, like, so it's like.

But I'm real proud of that, you know what I'm saying?

Because that's East Oakland raised me, you know, same.

But hip hop did too, you know, it was just like I was.

I was.

You know, I came up in a time where hip hop was like, you know, on BET and MTV and the videos and you seeing all that kind of stuff.

So, you know.

Yeah.

Is there some things that you not proud about East Oakland?

Cause I. I got a list.

You know what?

I. I do too.

The only thing I mean, I would say Like, I've had family members who, you know, succumb to, like, crack and all that kind of stuff, you know, and that's the one thing I'm not proud of, you know, but what I'm super proud of is, like, all of them have gotten better.

God.

Oh, my God.

Changed their lives.

God is good.

Like, they've changed their life.

You know, they've.

They're doing much better and pushing forward.

So, you know, I mean that, if anything, it would probably be that.

Yeah, I can actually relate to that with my mother.

Rest in peace, you know, I think.

Who is that?

I think lol Rapp, me and Lorab was talking about.

I don't know if you've seen the episode.

Yeah, I know.

That's my shout out.

Lol Rapp.

Yeah, that's the one that made me viral when we was talking about that in the.

You know, how people praise certain things or certain people that are.

That's our culture.

That's what we do.

It makes me crazy.

It's just like they'll praise, you know, the things.

It's.

It's really minimal.

What do you call it?

Minimalizing.

Where they praise the.

The.

The monetary, valuable things that a drug dealer may.

Or a pimp may have brought to the community or.

But they don't praise or try to uplift or even help her change a prostitute.

Okay.

If anything, get her out the game.

You know what I mean?

I don't understand.

Why do you think.

I think it's our culture.

It's our culture.

I was gonna tell you.

You know what I mean?

It's the BAE culture.

Like, we come up on.

Glorifying.

Well, glorifying, but also, like, getting over.

And I'm trying.

Like, I mean, we just, you know, Getting over.

You said it.

No, like.

But yeah, like, getting over and scheming and scamming.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, that's really what it is.

It's like, we.

We gotta come up.

Oh, that's.

Oh, that's how they do.

Okay, I can.

Oh, oh.

You see that, you know, and you see.

You see somebody might be vulnerable to something like, you know, and it's like, oh.

Or you see a weakness and you attack it.

You know what I'm saying?

And you get what you want from that weakness.

Like, that's how, you know, it's the pimp player culture that we grew up on, you know, so it's like.

It's part of it.

Did you go through that as a new DJ for the worst?

Cause in My mind, that's a big thing.

That's actually huge.

Especially when they won a championship.

I know that put y' all on.

Put you on.

Did you go through that?

Like, people like you felt like maybe.

Cause you seem like you got that good energy.

You good kind.

What's your sign, real quick?

Pisces.

Oh, yeah.

Water sign.

You guys are very, very sweet, you know, Y' all good.

Y' all like me.

Like, we're giving.

Yes.

You know, sensitive, though, and emotional at times.

You know, we have the same quality.

We just opposite.

But do you feel like.

Because I get this all the time, I'm extra giving, and I feel like sometimes you are, too.

And I feel like sometimes people take that for granted.

And then when the beast come out now, they.

They be like, oh, okay, I shouldn't probably mess with that one.

Did you come across that being new.

In the industry all the time, it's crazy, because I think, you know, like, I'm like, you know, I got a studio, I make beats, doing all these projects with artists.

I'm not charging them.

I'm not.

You know what I'm saying?

Already know.

I'm not charging them.

I'm not asking for no money.

I'm not asking you to keep my lights on.

I'm not.

I'm not.

I don't even drink.

I'll bring liquor to the.

You know, like, he's preaching to the choir.

Who do he sound like?

Like, I.

You know what I'm saying?

I'm always looking to, you know, make sure everybody else cool, you know, ain't nobody ever came to me, hey, Sharp.

Take this or, hey, I see what you doing.

Here's this.

And it's all take, take, take.

But at the same time, I'm gonna keep it a buck.

I don't.

I don't mind it, because in my mind, too, it's like.

It's kind of like.

Not that I'm taking it from them, but, like, the way I see it is like we all are trying to get somewhere together.

Correct.

That's how I look at it.

It's like we trying to build something together.

I want to see you succeed.

I want to see your family succeed.

I want to see you buy that house.

I want to see you buy that whip.

I want to see you win.

I want to see you win.

That's me, you know, so, like, to your point, in the industry, I think people, you know, I think you'll hear, yeah, I appreciate you.

I appreciate you.

I appreciate you.

But it's like, you gotta show that action.

You know what I'm saying?

Absolutely.

And for me, it's all love.

Like, I mean, you know, I do it in a heartbeat.

Like, I don't, you know, same.

It is what it is.

But the industry, it's a cold game.

It's a cold game.

I was just gonna say that.

It's a cold game.

And it's like, you gotta, like, even with DJing, like, the calls I get sometimes for people who want to just, like, it's like, can you be changed for six hours for $100?

Percy, deal with that.

He gets mad all the time about that.

Listen, like, you know.

Cause it's a skill, what you do.

It's a skill, it's a talent.

I can't get on there and do it right.

So I get it.

But that's the thing.

It's like you got people who like, I was just watching a clip yesterday and it was like.

And it's something I do all the time, and it kind of made me upset, but it was like a clip of, like, this.

It was like a girl, she was DJing, and then she had, like, all the people behind her, and then she did, like, this transition.

And I was like, I've literally done this like a million times.

And it was just like, everybody was like going crazy.

I know you talk about.

And you could tell, like, you know, she probably had just started DJing.

And I'm not hating, but I'm just saying, like, it's insane to me that, you know, people like that one clip, right?

Like, and I don't know.

I don't know what's up with Shorty.

Like, I don't know her skill level.

I've never seen her DJ a full party.

But what I'm getting at is from that one clip, she will get a bunch of people hitting her to dj, right?

She show up and dj and then it's like, wait, she's not a dj, you know what I'm saying?

It's like, this is a viral moment.

But then also people look at it and they say, well, it got the hits, a million plus views, so I'm gonna get these people to come.

And then that's how.

You know what I'm saying?

People think about it, but it's like, they don't look into the.

Like you said, you put time into this.

Like, do you know how to really work a room?

Do you know how to, like, aside from just this transition that's on and.

Viral moment.

Viral moment.

Can you hold down a hour?

Set a four Hour set.

Like, can you do that?

Like, can you do the ebbs and flows, the peaks and valleys?

Like, what?

You know what I'm saying?

And when you get down to it, a lot of them can't.

You know what I'm saying?

And it's like, you know, And I'm not hating.

I'm just saying, like, no, you spitting facts.

It is what it is, you know, so it's like, yeah, that's really social media.

It's social media.

It's social media.

Just like, no.

And here I go.

I'm not hating.

No disrespect.

That's like the little girl Tuesday.

Yes.

Viral.

Viral.

And in my mind, I'm like, you know, I don't.

I respect it.

You know, it's a whole thing going around talking.

Let West Oakland shine and East Oakland bench.

Shout out to West Stalkley.

All the celebrities is saying it.

I'm very happy for that girl.

I am, too.

I just don't get it.

Like, you can hear it in her delivery.

You can hear it in her.

In how she was.

It was a moment.

It was a moment.

It was a moment, and it was captured.

And it's blowing up, and I'm.

It didn't blew up.

It's dope.

It's blew up.

I am all East Oakland, West Oakland, Oakland.

I'm Oakland, North Oakland, period.

And it's dope, too, because I was able to be a part of Alyssa Lou's celebration and just seeing Oakland coming together for her.

And then, you know, we had Dame, and we had Bro from the Heat.

We had Ryan Coogler, Kehlani.

Okay, yes.

They shot her out right now.

We talking Grammys, we talking awards, we talking about.

We, like, all of our people are at the top of what's going on.

And it's like being from Oakland, like, you look at that.

And I was telling this to my kids.

I'm like.

I'm like, look at Dame.

Cause they Hoopers.

And I'm like, you know, they done took pictures with Dame.

They know Dame.

But they like.

I'm like, this is what it.

You know, Three point contest, chant twice.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, you could do that.

You know, you could do that in a moment.

And it's just so.

It's like showing the kids and showing everybody that, you know, like, again, we real prideful in Oakland.

We are.

And it's like, you know, Rabnam had that.

I was teasing.

I saw Rab.

I was telling him.

I was like, ever since y' all had that panel.

The baby turned up.

You know what I'm saying?

Wait, which panel?

They had the panel with him and Big Rich and all of them.

They was talking about Stretch, the rappers and all.

Yeah, yeah.

They was talking about the industry and, like, what the band need to do.

Yes.

And then it was like the.

You look back at that, and it's like the bay doing it.

The bay is doing it.

One umbrella is popping.

Like, it's like.

It's an energy.

It's a synergy that's going on in the.

Not just Oakland, but in the bay.

In the bay.

But I will say this.

And being from Oakland, we are the center.

We are.

We are the center.

Kehlani got the Grammys.

She from Oakland.

Yes.

Alyssa Lou brought the gold.

She from Oakland.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Dang.

He from Oakland.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, it's like.

So it's like, okay, and now Tuesday.

And now Tuesday, now she's.

When I tell you everywhere, everybody.

Oh, no, it's big.

Everybody is like, popping.

This girl, I think she just signed a Natalie Nunn.

Did she?

She did.

Oh, that's a good one.

She just signed, I think.

Don't quote me if I'm wrong, but she just signed a Natalie Nunn.

So I take that.

It's both ways.

The good part about it, this can change her life.

It can change West Stoken life.

She can give opportunities, for sure.

She can, you know.

You know, just do a whole lot for the community.

And then on the flip end is social media, the.

The bull crap on how it can blow up certain things.

Cause let's say you go on there and you post just, like an amazing thing that changed a cancer kid life.

That ain't gonna go viral.

That ain't gonna go viral.

That's crazy to me.

But her seeing Tuesday clap back and all that helping.

Helping people never, like, helping, just like, you know, and let you know.

And I do it all the time.

Like, unless you got your camera out and you.

You know, like.

But then that to me always looks fake.

It does.

You know what I'm saying?

So.

And I.

Even if.

Even when I'm in a position of giving or I'm somewhere where it's like that, I'm like, I'm.

To the back.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

Cause I don't want to be looked upon as, like.

Cause of social media.

Yes.

Oh, look at him.

He doing that cause of this or he doing that cause of that or for the views.

Like, you know, it's like, no, it's just.

It's just the hard.

It's a real moment.

It's just a real moment.

Like, you can still have real moments and go viral, right?

Like, for example, again, Tuesday.

I don't even think she was planning on.

No, it was not planning on that.

As a producer and someone who records music, I can hear it.

They said, get on the mic.

And she did that.

And she just did that.

And that was it.

That was.

It changed her life.

One moment, you feel me?

That's the.

That's what that was.

And it's like, I keep it a buck.

I'm not even expecting a record from her.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, it's gonna be a one hit.

Yeah, I don't think.

I don't think viral thing.

I don't think she should put that pressure on her if.

Cause if it's just like, you know, I mean, you know.

Cause now it's like, okay, you do it.

If.

Cause I know people are.

You gotta get a record.

You gotta do a record.

You gotta do a record.

And that's a lot.

And it's like, if you gotta do a record, then you might want to go get a writer, go see Fab, you know what I'm saying?

Go, go, go.

Go get somebody to script you something and get in the studio with you and really make something.

You know what I'm saying?

So it's beneficial.

Yeah, it's a lot.

Because that was literally a moment.

A moment.

And that stuff happens.

It happens.

It's damn near international.

Yeah, it happens.

It's serious.

Like.

And I'm just.

I'm so happy for her.

I'm so proud of her.

I just pray that, you know, she keeps her head on a swivel and.

Cause.

And I only say that because me now being in the industry, I'm considered in the industry.

I would love to shout out to Tuesday.

I'll get her.

I'll get on here, get her that Versace.

And it's just like, for me, I think now coming in the industry and maybe you can relate.

Like I said, it's a cold game.

It's a cold game.

And it's just.

And I hate that it's like that.

And I see why a lot of people don't last.

It's just the way it's.

It's.

It's been forever.

They say the devil was in charge of the music in heaven.

I feel like he was.

Is that.

Oh, that's.

That's what.

That's what they say.

That's a bar.

I got to say that again.

DJ D, I'm posting that.

That.

Look, the devil was in charge of the music in heaven.

I could definitely believe that.

Because think about it.

A lot of music is another one, like social media that.

Let's talk about it.

The guys, the, you know, gang.

I'm gonna shoot it out of that now, I think.

Who was that?

Sean from Hip Hop Live tv.

I did.

Oh, yeah, Big Sean.

Shout out to Sean.

He was saying how guys now are talking about own.

They music killing people.

And the people they done killed and you know, the Stockton shooting, they talking about that to me.

They like own.

They like incriminating themselves on wax.

Yeah.

And it's just like, why.

I think it's a different era, you know?

Definitely.

And I think it's just like.

I mean, we keep talking about it, but social media makes it so, like, everybody want to be seen.

Everybody want to go viral.

So these are ways.

Like, I watched a video, I forget when it was, but I just saw, like, these dudes, like, just recording themselves doing stuff.

You know what I'm saying?

It's like, what part of the game is that we recording ourselves, like, in the middle of doing.

Like, it's crazy.

And there's cameras everywhere now, too.

That's another thing.

Like, it's.

Oh, they not playing no more.

No, it's cameras everywhere.

So you gonna get caught.

Like, it's insane.

But yeah, the industry is crazy.

But at the same time, you gotta look at, like, what it's done for a lot of people.

That too.

It's always a flip in the end.

It's even with sports.

Sports have gotten a lot of brothers out the hood, changed a lot of family lives, changed a lot of generational wealth.

But they also deal with them turkey basters and going into their rooms, girls coming out butt naked.

And they married and, you know.

You know, I gotta ask you, do they be on you like that and you married?

Like, just the women?

Nah, nah.

I mean.

Cause she's been in there.

You know what's funny?

I'll have even my wife.

Like, they'll be like.

People tell me, they'll be like, you can see that.

Like, she all in your face.

And I'm like, you don't even pay no attention.

I don't pay no attention.

You shouldn't.

No.

Exactly.

Cause I'm like.

I'm oblivious to it.

You shouldn't.

Like, it was a story.

I used to DJ this party back in the day.

It was called Sophie's.

Used to go crazy that's, like, one of my first parties.

I started DJing and got better at DJ.

The big moment and better.

Yeah.

So I used to do this party, and my wife was telling me it was a group of girls that used to just come to see me, and it was like.

And when she told me that, I was like, who?

And then her friend had confirmed it, and they were like, yeah, you never saw them.

And then they were like.

They would be in the front.

They be, like, all trying to get your attention.

They was like, you was just locked in, focused.

And this is before my wife.

Like, I was.

You know what I'm saying?

So I was like.

I'm like, wait, what?

Like, where was they at?

And they was like.

They was pretty.

They had the curly hair.

They was, you know, like, they was, you know, college.

And they come to Sophie's.

They come home, go to Sophie's and go to your party.

And I'm just like, wait a minute.

I don't remember none of that, you know, But I was always just tunnel vision.

Yeah.

A lot of y' all Pisces water signs.

It's my ex.

My husband was just they.

When y' all locked in, it's actually abnormal to a point.

I've never seen nothing like it.

I don't know if it's a water sign thing or when I say, like, it's a real tunnel.

No.

Yeah.

And it's like, eye on a prize.

Right, right, right.

But it's actually a blessing.

It is.

Guys, too.

It could be a curse, too.

It can.

You know what I mean?

I mean, I mean, as a Pisces and all the Pisces out there know, like, I procrastinate a lot, but I'm.

Finna fall out the sea.

But to that point, like, when it's time to get it done, you get it done.

We get it done.

You get it done.

Like, we get it done.

It could be to the last, and.

You get it done second.

And it's like, it would be like we was always there with you, you know?

So, like, I can agree.

And I will take that.

Yeah, y' all shut down.

Like, you'll shut down if it's too much.

You can't have too much at you.

Cause you.

Me, I'm a little opposite.

I'm fired.

You can throw it all at me, and I'm like, boom, boom.

Right, right, right, right.

You finna go get a shield and make sure nothing hits you.

You know what I mean?

But I can hold it up and, like, catch all of them.

You Know what I mean?

And I think that's what.

Right.

Am I calling you out?

Well, you know, I got a PhD.

Come on.

So I know my pipes, I know my water signs.

How y'.

All, you know, you can't handle too much pressure.

And that's honestly a good thing.

You'll have good health.

Oh, yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

As opposed to somebody that could take it all on.

And it's like.

I think.

I think.

I mean, the pressure you can handle.

I think what it is, is when you getting the.

When the pressure is hitting you, you prioritize the pressure.

That's what I do.

I prioritize the pressure.

Right.

Are you a good multitasker?

I try to be, you know, like I'm trying to be.

Hey, shout out to King, NTG Team Bay Area.

We mixing this record right now.

We got a record called the New Standard about to Drop.

Okay.

And they own me about this mixing.

Cause we try to get it out by May.

So it's like, you know, like, I'm just kind of.

I'm tickled so taking my time with it.

And I know they like sharp.

If you don't get.

If you don't get done.

So shout out to my brother.

I don't know what the camera at.

Get me watering.

That New Standard is on the way.

We just dropped a single with Simba.

It's called Cause and Effect.

Okay.

Yeah.

And if you, you know, check it out.

You.

You hear what I was talking about?

About the, like, slap, slap in the hip hop.

Yeah, yeah.

You hear?

But these boys is going crazy on this track.

Send it to me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll send it to you.

And it's going up and.

No, we, we.

We working.

I like that.

Matter of fact, tell the people what is.

Where do you see.

Let's start with this.

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Grammy.

Can I get.

Will I be there?

Have a seat, please.

Come on.

It's all good.

And I want to sit right next to wifey.

Come on, come on.

It's all good.

Yes.

Grammys.

Let's go.

In the next five years.

I mean, I think that's really where I'm trying to go.

I love that.

That's really where I'm trying to go.

Well, you living out your dream as a dj.

Yeah.

One of the best.

The best.

Thank you.

I see that for you.

That's what the focus is right now is kind of like producing and production and trying to get more production out and doing.

Like, I got projects with a Lot of people that's already out that I produce the full projects.

But it's something special about this King and TG Team Bay Area thing we doing.

It's pretty dope.

So it's like, yeah, we working.

I like that.

Yeah, I like that.

That's what's up.

And so what else you got coming out?

Tell the people, you know, what else they can expect from DJ D Sharp.

Again, it's just more production, more visibility, and being seen, because that's what it's about, right?

But also just being out there.

You gonna see me at AAU games arguing with refs for my sons, and you should, you know, doing that.

And I'm real excited watching my sons grow and become men.

So it's like.

It's real dope watching that and just, like, watching they journey and supporting their journey and.

Yeah, so.

But yeah, I mean, more so than anything, though, for me right now, it's just building on production and, like, building.

I got a production company called Table 5 Music Group.

Okay.

So I've been building that for, like, the last three, four years.

Okay.

And again, like we was talking about earlier, it was started for me to showcase my production, but also to work with artists who I thought were dope and that I can lend a platform to or help.

We help each other build together.

So that's why I started Table five.

I like that.

I like that.

Cause you know, me.

I don't know if you did any research about me or know anything about me.

Of course, you know my PhD and all that, but I'm the girl with transitional housing.

Okay.

And so I do foster youth, where I house over 50 foster youth, and I have 50 apartment complexes where I pay all their bills.

They don't pay anything.

So state license facility.

And.

And so, you know, we deal with the troubled youth.

I take the toughest of the tough.

From the ones that need to help.

From, you know, rapists, from arsonists.

I take the toughest kids.

And a lot of people don't know.

It's a whole community with the foster care.

It's a whole nother world.

And so you being a father, you know, and having young children, especially black.

Young black men.

Let's talk about it.

You know, my population that I deal with is 98% black.

Wow.

In a house.

50.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Is that something?

And so I got contracts with different counties that call me.

It's 98% black men and mostly women.

Young girls, all women.

And so I probably got, like, five guys.

The rest 40 young girls.

Wow.

Is that something that are in the foster care and so what is something that you would tell them, you know, in regards to keeping their head on the swivel and like staying positive?

What is something positive that you will tell them when it comes to wanting to be in the industry, wanting to be a dj?

They all got dreams.

Everybody has a dream.

They all got dreams.

I was just talking to some kids recently and what I tell them is, start now.

Like, I don't know what the age is.

The age 18 to 21.

Oh, 18 to 21.

Yeah.

I was talking to younger kids, but like, even at 18 to 21, that's still young.

It's like whatever it is that you love in your heart, you know what I'm saying?

Like, whatever it is, if you want to be a singer, you want to be a rapper, you want to be a psychologist, you want to, you know, you want to help people, like get with a mentor first, like someone who you see doing it in your community, tap in with them.

And a lot of times you'd be surprised.

They'll help you, you know, because, you know, we want to help, you know.

Absolutely.

And.

And just go and get as much game from them as you can and just start building.

I mean, it's tough.

It's always gonna be tough, for sure.

It's always gonna tough.

We all have had tough times.

We all have had that moment where it's like, you wanna quit, you wanna stop.

But, you know, and then I would say, I mean, it might be cliche or whatever, but I would say, like, really turn to the Bible, right?

Listen, like cliche, but I'm just saying, like, I really believe.

I really believe.

Like, if, if you turn to the Bible and you start and.

And it.

And it ain't even.

You ain't even got to be.

You ain't even got to be Christian, Catholic, Muslim, you know what I'm saying?

But just a higher being, just.

Just knowing that there's something higher than you, something higher than yourself and it's something hired for you to lean on.

It's.

There's something that got your back.

There's an energy.

That's God.

God got your back.

Amen.

So it's like just, just know that and stay prayed up, you know, I like that.

Like stay prayed up and, and practice what you preach, right?

So it's just like, I need to get out of this situation.

I need to get out of this.

We'll do something and get out of that situation.

I like it like, you know, like do research.

Like everybody Our.

Our phones are computers.

You know what I'm saying?

The resources is right there they are.

AI is going crazy right now.

Crazy.

Like you could do anything you want.

Everything.

Yes.

So it's like, it.

It's really.

It's really.

It's really.

No excuses.

But I know we all come from different, you know, we come from different backgrounds, we come from different situations.

So it's just, you know, really trusting in God, trusting in yourself and, you know, like that Kobe Mamba mentality.

It's like you see something and you want it, you go get it, period, you know, and you don't care.

And that's what.

Another thing I tell kids I talk to is like, don't worry about what everybody else doing.

Don't worry about what they got, what he got to my sons.

Don't worry about what they got.

Like that.

Don't.

That.

That don't make.

Don't worry about that.

Don't make or break you.

That's not you.

This is about.

You worry about.

You worry about what you need to do, worry about what, you know, how your day is, how, what, you know, what you got going on, what you need to accomplish.

It's not.

Don't worry about what everybody else is doing.

And I think, you know, you'll get successful.

Absolutely.

If you start applying those.

That's powerful, what you said.

I think a lot of kids definitely need to hear that because I always will tell them too.

You know, everybody that come in your life, at least on my beliefs, they're either a lesson or a blessing.

Come on, just period.

It could be good.

You could be they lesson, lesson, or they could be yours.

And so I try to tell them too, when I do have conversations with them, just like you stay in your lane, Mind your.

Mind your business.

Mind your business.

Mind your business.

And then you'll have a great life.

Yes.

Well, I'm gonna tell you this, DJ D Shark, by far, you have probably been one of my favorite interviews.

Oh, that means a lot.

Thank you.

Because you've been.

You interviewed a lot of people.

I have.

And, you know, you know, like I said, I'm on a new hype with this, this podcast.

Like, I want positivity.

And if you notice with any of them, I'm never messy, I'm never drama.

That's not the realm that I'm trying to be in.

You know, I want to uplift.

And it's easy to go that way.

Very easy to where the money at.

That's where the money at.

But also, and to the point of sticking with it.

Like if you, you stick with something, this tunnel vision, you stick with it and you have your goal and you see your goal.

Don't worry about the views, don't worry about the likes, don't worry about the comments.

If you stay on your path and you stay consistent, it's gonna come.

It's proof in concept.

It really, ooh, it's like, you see, you know, I'll equate it to the rappers from the bay.

You know what I'm saying?

If you look at the Russell, you look at Larry June, you look at those, I look at those two brothers and I always say, I tell rappers, I'd be like, that's the blueprint, like in terms of rapping, in terms of being an entrepreneur in this music.

Like, them brothers didn't care about what you thought about them.

They didn't care about going to make.

I gotta get on the radio.

I gotta go and do this, I gotta go and do that.

I need to do this.

They didn't care.

They like, they brought the people to them.

They built one fan at a time.

And that's what you have to do in life, period.

Period.

It's like you got to build one at a time.

All right, cool.

All right, cool.

I got, I got.

Okay, cool.

I got my car.

Got my car.

All right, cool.

I want to go get this house.

All right, cool.

Let me start stacking.

Let me do the things to do that to get to this house.

All right, cool.

I got my house.

Oh, man, I really want a family.

Okay, cool.

Start searching for your partner and being in the right places and connecting with the right people.

And the next thing you know, you got you a family and now you got, you know what I'm saying?

The life.

You got the life.

But take steps.

It takes one day at a time,.

One day at a time.

Put everything in one day.

And I'm glad you said that.

Cause I just started a network shout out to B with studios.

I got my own network.

There you go.

So I got quite a few podcasters on there.

I want to be the first like successful black owned woman podcast network.

You know, hey, congratulations and positivity.

Thank you.

You know, I've had quite a few offers with like, you know, some of the type of baddie fight shows.

That's not who I am.

I don't even want to be represented.

Not saying it's, you know, bad because it's a lane for everybody.

Lane for everything.

It's a lane for everything.

But I'm more on uplifting Giving you guys a platform to talk about the positive, the things that people may not know about you.

Right, right, right.

You get what I'm saying?

So that's where I come from.

That's where.

Turning your hustle into a legacy.

And honestly, I'm gonna end it by saying I think you've done that.

Oh, thank you.

You know, you.

You.

I'm still working.

But you lived out your dream, though.

You're living out your dream.

You was DJing at 11, and you are now for the Warriors.

It don't get no better than that.

Yeah, no, it's a blessing.

I always tell people, like, the way that that happened and how it was, it was.

It's bittersweet.

Cause the dude that had it before me, rest in peace, DJ Solomon, he passed away.

But then it was like, you know, it.

Like I said, it's bittersweet because I grew up, like, up.

Up until 11, and when I moved.

To.

The 50s, like, I was in Brookfield, and we used to walk to the A's games and go to.

You know what I'm saying, Warrior games.

Like, free tickets and all that kind of stuff.

So I used to.

You know, I. I was right there, and it was like, To.

To be able to be like, damn, I'm.

I'm deep.

I used to look at this spot.

Wow.

From the.

You know, from my.

You know, from here.

Like.

Like.

And it's like, I'm here, Oracle DJing.

And it was just like.

I didn't take any of it for granted.

I don't take it for granted, you know.

Wow.

Well, you're very modest.

You're very modest.

You know, you're humble.

I can just fill it with your energy.

You.

Not like, you know, you're very.

You're a good man.

And it's funny.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And that's the thing, too, like, shout out Willie Joe.

He telling me I'm too humble.

He like, you gotta get out of that, bro.

He like, you gotta get out of that.

And I feel him, because it's like.

It's levels to it.

I think I just posted something, actually, that's funny you said that, because sometimes people forget who you are.

People forget who you are.

And then they start.

You gotta let people.

You gotta let them know something.

You gotta let them know.

Sometimes you gotta let them know.

I think that's where he would.

That's what he was saying.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, I just posted that.

Poke your chest out a little bit.

Just a little bit, you know?

What I'm saying.

No, not too much, because sometimes, you know, they'll take you there, though.

They'll take you out your character.

It'll take you out your character, and I never want to do that.

Me neither.

I try not.

Not in the public sector, but, like, you know.

You know, in a positive.

Yeah, yeah, we keep.

We keep everything positive over here.

So it's like.

Yeah, okay.

Well, listen, you have been, like I said, one of my favorite interviewers.

Oh, thank you.

That means a lot to come back.

Thank you.

And we just appreciate you on the platform.

We definitely got a Versace role.

They ain't under the roll.

Cause they in my closet.

I forgot we was rushing, so I got you, yo.

Versace.

Oh, that's all good.

You know my guess, Get Versace.

But we thank you for coming, and hopefully you give me my warriors.

One of them, somebody.

I told you.

I told you who to talk to.

I like that.

I like y' all here.

We'll thank y' all for tuning in with Dr. Stanton.

Of course, D.J.

D Sharp turning your hustle into a legacy.

We out.